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...internists have fought infections in some extremely ill patients with massive doses of antibiotics, and when one drug didn't work, they tried another and another. From the standpoint of their individual patients, the physicians could do no better. The consequences for society as a whole, however, are troubling. Stubborn strains of bacteria resistant to many different antibiotics have taken up permanent residence in hospitals around the world. Experts predict that the effectiveness of widely active antibiotic agents such as the cephalosporins, which entered clinical use in 1964, will soon be dramatically reduced...
...production that everybody should see, when in the past you have been not the least bit reluctant to review productions that lack any semblance of artistic or political merit? Your failure to print a review of this feminist play suggests a patriarchal, rather conservative political agenda and a stubborn unwillingness to approach the theater with an open mind...
...controlled legislature, now oozing into a second month, showed growing signs of urgency. The two branches of state government were still hung up over the question of how to close an $11 billion gap for a new $60 billion budget. At the heart of the standoff was Wilson's stubborn insistence on cutting education $2.3 billion. Wilson also threatened to veto a compromise bill introduced in his own Republican ranks. Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's Democrats just as stubbornly drew the line and refused to cut school funding more than $605 million. Fumed the Assembly's education chairwoman Delaine Eastin...
...part, Zmeskal describes herself as stubborn (her mom says she gets this from coach Karolyi) and perfectionist (this from her dad). She is mildly irritated when people mistake her silence during competition for shyness. "I'm not quiet," she says. "I like laughing and being with my friends." Away from practice and performances, there is a teenager who has graduated from New Kids on the Block to Boyz II Men, likes to hang out in malls and thinks it would be fun to act in a soap opera. As down-to-earth as she is, though, Zmeskal is just superstitious...
...today, he says, "we've lost our confidence. The good times are over." Economic growth has slowed to 2%, and inflation remains at a stubborn 6.9%. Unemployment has swelled to 17.5%, no better than when Gonzalez took office. "There's a lot of cosmetics," says Pedro J. Ramirez, editor of the daily El Mundo. "But fundamentally we have not made a modern economy." Anyone who conducts long-distance business on Spanish telephones or is so naive as to rely on Correos, the government mail service, or so unwitting as to fly Iberia, the fickle state airline, might be tempted...